In a time when the Pauline dictum decreed that women be silent in matters of the Church, Johanna Eleonora Petersen (1644 1724) was a pioneering author of religious books, insisting on her right to speak out as a believer above her male counterparts. Publishing her readings of the Gospels and the Book of Revelation as well as her thoughts on theology in general, Petersen and her writings created controversy, especially in orthodox circles, and she became a voice for the radical Pietists those most at odds with Lutheran ministers and their teachings. But she defended her lay religious calling...
In a time when the Pauline dictum decreed that women be silent in matters of the Church, Johanna Eleonora Petersen (1644 1724) was a pioneering author...
This collection of essays breaks new ground in looking at Berlin after the fall of the Wall as the city struggles to re-establish itself as the cultural and political capital of Germany. The essays offer insightful readings of the metropolis, its people and institutions, as a paradigm for modern Germany. They focus on important cultural developments and changes as they occurred especially, but not exclusively, in Berlin. Issues explored include women's role in the restructuring of higher education in Berlin, the impact of State Security at Humboldt University, problems of a growing...
This collection of essays breaks new ground in looking at Berlin after the fall of the Wall as the city struggles to re-establish itself as the cul...
The Enlightenment was based on the use of reason, common sense, and -natural law, - and was paralleled by an emphasis on feelings and the emotions in religious, especially Pietist circles. Progressive thinkers in England, France, and later in Germany began to assail the absolutism of the state and the orthodoxy of the Church; in Germany the line led from Leibniz, Thomasius, and Wolff to Lessing and Kant, and eventually to the rise of an educated upper middle class. Literary developments encompassed the emergence of a national theater, literature, and a common literary language. This became...
The Enlightenment was based on the use of reason, common sense, and -natural law, - and was paralleled by an emphasis on feelings and the emotions in ...
This volume looks at how religious identity and symbolic ethnicity influence migration. Religion - Christianity - was an important factor in European transatlantic migrations; religion - Islam - is a major issue in the immigration debate in "post-secular" Germany (and Europe) today. Essays focus on German missionaries and their efforts in the eighteenth century to establish new communal forms of living with Native Americans as religious encounters. In a comparative fashion, Islamic transnational migration into Germany in the twenty-first century is explored in a second group of essays that...
This volume looks at how religious identity and symbolic ethnicity influence migration. Religion - Christianity - was an important factor in European ...
Anna Ovena Hoyers Barbara Becker-Cantarino Anna Ovena Hoyers
In der Buchreihe Deutsche Neudrucke werden Texte der Barockliteratur in originalgetreuen Nachdrucken zeitgenossischer Ausgaben wieder zuganglich gemacht. Den einzelnen Banden sind jeweils Register, Bibliographien und ein Nachwort zur Uberlieferung und geistesgeschichtlichen Stellung der Texte beigegeben.
In der Buchreihe Deutsche Neudrucke werden Texte der Barockliteratur in originalgetreuen Nachdrucken zeitgenossischer Ausgaben wieder zuga...
Das Motto des Bandes ist einer Rezension entnommen, die Ingeborg Drewitz (1923-1986) zu Alexander Solschenizyns Krebsstation (1968) verfasst hat. Es ist weniger eine trotzige Behauptung denn eine utopische Formel, mit der sie sich zu einem Zeitpunkt Mut zu machen versuchte, als sie nicht nur feststellen musste, dass die eigenen Krafte zu schwinden begannen. Auch das literarisch-politische Feld begann sich so zu verandern, dass viele ihrer Positionen von einer jungeren Generation als uberholt beiseite geschoben wurden. Als sie starb, war es bereits still um eine Autorin geworden, die...
Das Motto des Bandes ist einer Rezension entnommen, die Ingeborg Drewitz (1923-1986) zu Alexander Solschenizyns Krebsstation (1968) verfasst ha...
